Face to Face

The only equal or the nearest equal I find is my own self. I stand apart from it, facing it and I experience a peculiar thrill- the thrill of knowing that there is no one else, there is only I and that I am alone- and this is absolute! Where I stand, I am totally alone. Where he stands, he is totally alone. Perhaps my ‘aloneness’ is different from his, perhaps it is similar, or perhaps even identical... In our respective aloneness-s, we are absolute and free and perhaps the same.
This is freedom, as never before imagined- when you know of no one else, no comparison, no evaluation, no loss, no gain... Can there be freedom more than this?